The AI Token Shortage Begins [AI Monthly Recap]

Today on the AI Daily Brief, we're recapping the month of May, one of the single most consequential AI months we've had in a very, very long time.

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1. 01And we got the series of models, including Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.2, which of course all came together to unleash the true agent era at the beginning of 2026
2. 02At this point, you've heard me talk ad nauseum about the fact that everyone went home for the holidays, started hacking around on clawed code or with these new models, and discover
3. 03Not only were software engineers actually using agentic coding tools in a mainstream way, not just vibe coding prototypes and things like that, but actually pushing agent-created c